Today's News

HILLSVILLE – An author releasing a new book this weekend at the Memorial Day Flea market hopes to help raise funds for restoration of a historic home in Carroll County.

Historian and writer Thomas B. Perry’s new book from Laurel Hill Publishing, “Murder in a Rear View Mirror: Stories of True Crime,” will be available at the Hillsville VFW lot during the Memorial Day Weekend Flea Market, May 25-28.

A Galax man told police that his six puppies had a hand, or a paw, in causing a single-vehicle crash on May 20, according to Virginia State Trooper J.E. Tilson.

The Galax Volunteer Fire Department arrived on scene at 6:56 p.m. on Pipers Gap Road, and freed Scott David Peterson, 59, and his six puppies from a Ford pickup they found overturned on its side, said Assistant Fire Chief Mark Burnett.

The City of Galax is considering reversing the flow of traffic on one-way Swanson Street, near Galax Elementary School.

Galax City Council has referred the proposal regarding the Swanson-MacArthur streets intersection to the Safety Traffic Commission.

City Engineer Edwin Ward and City Manager Keith Barker have been in discussion with an engineering team to reverse the one-way flow on the street, changing it so that drivers would enter Swanson at its intersection with MacArthur and exit on Calhoun Street.

INDEPENDENCE – As the Grayson school system faces a $1 million dollar shortfall in revenue due to loss of student funding and an increase in insurance costs, the supervisors are devising a plan to meet the school board’s request for the county to contribute more than the minimum it its required to provide.

INDEPENDENCE — Independence Middle School Coach Charles Campbell was named the 2018 teacher of the year for the Grayson County Public Schools district, during a ceremony held May 14 at the GCHS auditorium.

Before the board’s regular monthly meeting, Campbell and seven other instructors were honored for their contributions to the school system during the 2017-18 school year.